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Major Storm Accelerated Arctic Sea Ice Loss, Study Finds

2013-02-02 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: The "Great Arctic Cyclone of 2012," which struck the Arctic at the height of the sea ice melt season in early August, was not responsible for causing sea ice extent to plunge to a record low just a few weeks later. That is one of the conclusions of a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. It is the first study to quantify the impacts that the storm had on the fragile Arctic sea ice cover, which has been rapidly shrinking and thinning in response to rapid Arctic warming....

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